Still Cam: Point and Shoot

Still Cam is a camera that doesn't try to fix your photos.

Your phone makes about a hundred decisions every time you press the shutter. HDR, smart exposure, AI face smoothing, sky recoloring, edge sharpening. By the time you see the photo, it's not really what was in front of you anymore. It's the phone's best guess at what you would have liked.

Still Cam turns all of that off. Every computational feature, disabled. Sensor data goes straight to a JPEG. What the lens actually saw is what you get. Imperfect, sometimes. That's the whole point. The flaws are what make a photo feel like a memory instead of a render.

what's inside

12 film stocks. Each one modeled from real chemistry, layer by layer. How the emulsion responds to light, how highlights bloom, how grain forms at the rated ISO. Not preset stacks, not LUTs, not one curve and a noise overlay. Pick a stock in the gallery later, watch it render against your original frame. Like scrolling your photo dump and finally choosing the look.

Soft mode for diffused, dreamy shots. We capture two frames at different focal positions and fuse them into one image with real optical bloom. Same physics a Pro-Mist filter pulls off on a real camera, but inside your phone.

Video that remembers what video used to look like. Five presets covering 2004 to 2011, the era of bad-good camera phones, before everything got so polished. Real codec artifacts, real color casts, real frame rates from flip phones and the first iPhones that could shoot video at all. Your kitchen clips and skate edits and party blur, but with the texture of the decade you grew up watching.

The camera body itself is yours to customize. Skin, viewfinder color, shutter button, slider tones, stickers. A thing that feels like an object in your hand, not a slab of glass.

how it works

Shoot first. Choose a film later. The capture is yours, untouched. The film is interpretation, applied once, when you're ready to come back to the photo with intent.

Free to use, with limits that nudge you toward intent. 36 photos a month (the size of a real roll), 60-second clips, a subset of stocks. The free tier is for people who like having less. There's an optional one-time unlock if you want everything.

No subscription. No ads. No tracking. Nothing leaves your phone. The app has no servers because there's nothing for them to receive.

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